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2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Movie Magic Live!’
You Win! presents Movie Magic Live!, an evening of silly, competitive fun for movie lovers! Hosted by Jason Fraley and Ally Jenkins, this is...
Review: ‘Margherita’ presented by Seventh Street Playhouse at Greenbelt Arts Center
Margherita by Anthony E. Gallo, presented by the Seventh Street Playhouse at the Greenbelt Arts Center under the direction of Beatrix Whitehall, is a...
2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Almost Full: A Young Woman’s Guide to Growing Up’
On July 6, 2018, six girls ages 13 to 17 came together and began composing poetry and choreography and a little music about their...
2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Draupadi’s Arranged Marriage’
Drawn from an episode in the Sanskrit epic The Mahabharata, Draupadi’s Arranged Marriage imagines the protagonist as a woman of modern feminist views faced...
2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Beauty and the Beat’
ORT Productions' Beauty and the Beat begins with a trio of dancers (Kelly Hogan, Carrie Monger, and Amy Scaringe) entering in formation into the...
2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘How to Fall in Love on a Warming Planet’
Rivers Wilder Green presents, How to Fall in Love on a Warming Planet for Capital Fringe 2018. Christopher B. Cox performs his original songs...
Review: ‘Harry Shearer: Up To Eleven’ at The Kennedy Center
My father first showed me This Is Spinal Tap when I was about fifteen. It was immediately one of my absolute favorite films. I've...
Review: ‘The Pirates of Penzance’ by The Hypocrites at Olney Theatre Center
Once upon a time, Gilbert and Sullivan staging was – there is no other word for it – stodgy. The D’Oyly Carte opera company...
2018 New York Musical Festival Review: ‘Emojiland’ at The Acorn Theatre at Theatre Row
If you’ve ever wondered about the private lives and inner thoughts of emojis and the impact software updates have on their interpersonal connections and...
2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Coronado’
What’s worse than murder? What would God say? All the characters are “peddled out,” i.e. in dead-end jobs, down-on-their-luck, or near that, drinking Buds...
2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘Through the Wall’
By Garinè Isassi
Through the Wall is a dance story that sprang from an art experiment put together by Source Festival called the Artistic Blind...
Review: ‘Late Night Double Feature Improv Show’ by Fells Point Corner Theatre
By Bill Kamberger
Improv is life; after all, we do it every day. And since many would claim that theater is life, performing improv in...
2018 Capital Fringe Review: “50 Ways…”
A woman (IO Browne) climbs out of bed, her lover still fast asleep, unmoved. She lays out on the floor, limber and sensual as...
2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘How’s That Workin’ Out For Ya?’
By Ellie Milewski
Four intelligent and gifted female playwrights/directors, three bold female actors and their marvelous male partner in crime, and a wonderful crew, walk...
2018 Capital Fringe Review: “14”
By Ellie Milewski
Columbine, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, Parkland. These are only a few names from a list of mass shooting in the United States....
DC Playwright Patrick Flynn Finalist in Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival
Editor's Update, August 26, 2018: At the 43rd Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival this week, Patrick Flynn's The Ferberizing of Coral was one of...
Review: ‘Where Did We Sit On The Bus?’ at 1st Stage Tysons
Where Did We Sit On The Bus? is a solo performance that examines identity in America through the eyes and observations of a Brown...
Musical Theater and Improv Join Forces at Washington Improv Theater
“Quick! We need a word. Any word,” says Travis Charles Ploeger, director and accompanist for iMusical, an improv ensemble out of Washington Improv Theater....
2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘PolySHAMory’
PolySHAMory, Capital Fringe veteran Kate Robards’ exploration of love, showcases theater’s ability to give stories meaningful emotion.
The show is constructed around Robards’ story of...
2018 Capital Fringe Review: ‘An Unhealthy Man Lectures You on Medical Issues’
Laughter really is the best medicine. As Vincent Clark assumes his place on stage for his one-person, multi-media comedy An Unhealthy Man Lectures You...